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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A snowy mountain rescue, wild horse rustling, grizzly bear mischief, a liquor store robbery in a small town, the lighter side of mountain living, and lost cattle. Tales of the Modern West is a collection of ten stories set in the Rocky Mountain West. They feature memorable people who populate the western states today and in the recent past. Read how Sergeant Hardy Harris, US Marine Corps, now retired, and his faithful canine companion, Old Blue, a personable Basset hound, save a bus full of Cub Scouts one winter. The pair returns to help round up rustlers stealing wild Mustangs from windswept mountains in rugged Wyoming. The other stories recount events and strong characters overcoming challenging situations. Take a moment and savor these heartwarming experiences for their color and humanity in the sweeping landscape and culture of the modern West.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Over the last twelve years I've written 4 books about the history of being black. As this new year begins.I'm going to do something a little different. A book of stories. With a little poetry thrown in. I hope that you enjoy it.Anthony Arnoldaka The Kingpen.

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Rik Danielsen, aka Prescott Parson, moved to Arizona with his parents when he was just two years old and has lived in the Southwest and West for the past sixty-eight years. He's had the privilege of tromping around the deserts and mountains riding horses, fishing, and hunting. Growing up, his heroes were men named Roy and Gene and Matt. They were men like Rowdy and Cheyenne and Bret. Joining the Single Action Shooting Society (SASS #104764) and getting to play Cowboy has allowed him to live out some of the fantasies he's had since he was a child. The tales he tells are filled with characters who struggle to survive and find love in a hostile world. …

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Dooleys Pub: A Collection of Erotic Short Stories was written as an intertwined collection of erotic love stories about common sexual events. This book is not intended to be pornography. It is written to allow the reader to experience the complex buildup that must precede a sexual event to understand the needs and sensitivities of a partner and to feel a true sense of fulfilment and satisfaction when you are done. The author has interjected clinical thoughts related to the overreaching concept of morality as it relates to human sexuality. The clinical examples take the reader through acts of same-sex and opposite-sex relationships. The reader should feel as though he or she has experienced the events. The enduring message from this series of stories is to go slow, have patience, and respect your partner. The rewards for you and your companion are magnitudes greater than rushing to a fast conclusion. If you need to get there in a hurry, take the interstate. If you want to enjoy the journey, take the back roads; there is much more to see, to do, and to have such as memorable experiences. The art of lovemaking is taking the back roads.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. As both a global learning company and award-winning publishing house, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt sought to weave together its educational and literary expertise to inspire young writers across the United States and celebrate their work. HMH launched the first-ever Spark a Story writing competition for high school students, and received submissions from teens across the country.   In the spirit of HMH's Best American series, the Spark a Story collection includes twenty short stories from this competition, as selected by HMH editors. The anthology offers a diverse set of pieces from some of today's promising teen writers, many of whom aspire to continue exploring the role writing will play in their lives.  &nbsp.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. Original Blyton stories are paired with brand new colour illustrations by Jamie Littler in a new and exciting format.

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. Do you know what's the biggest obstacle preventing many from learning Korean to fluency? It's a lack of vocabulary Reading in Korean is perhaps the most effective way to build up your vocabulary. With our book Korean Short Stories for Beginners and Intermediate Learners, you can practice reading the language while working on your Korean vocabulary and grammar skills. The stories contained within this book were written with Korean language learners in mind, so you don't have to worry about the level of the reading being too difficult as you encounter new vocabulary and grammar to learn Korean. Our Korean short stories use only the real language as spoken and written by native speakers every day so that you can learn Korean the natural way. They have been written and edited by native speakers from South Korea. Grab your copy now and get started today. …

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Short Stories from the Long Links is a collection of 25+1 golf related tales for those that love golf but can't always play. Some stories are inspired by real life events, daily activities, and golf endeavors while other stories are extremely outlandish, funny, scary, motivational, surprising, and unusual; but all are enjoyable to any golfer. Chapter 1 sample The Early BirdAFTER DINNER, while at the club, Rodger overheard a couple of members arguing about tee times. I much prefer the late afternoon to tee off, one club member said. The day is starting to wind down and it makes for a more relaxed round. And if your golf is timed properly, you can finish at the precise moment that dinner is set.I'm sorry to disagree, but you have it all wrong, another member stated. The absolute best time to tee off is first thing in the morning. I don't mean to say you should be one of the first couple of groups to tee off but, rather, I mean be the first person to play, before the course has been touched by a single soul. There is an energy in the air. Some in the Far East say it has to do with solar flares or something cosmic as the Earth itself begins to wake up. Codswallop, if you ask me, but there is a difference in attitude while playing that early in the day.Yes, I agree. It's called lack of sleep, the first responded.To look out over the many fairways, still wet from the morning dew without a single footprint on them is something beautiful to observe. I've also found that it improves my game At that last comment Rodger perked up. He was always looking for ways to decrease his handicap and had been unable to move it more than a fraction of a stroke in a very long time.You're joking, the first member said to the second.I am not. The last time I played first for the day I hit more fairways and made more putts. It was as if I couldn't miss, like my ball was a groundhog running from its shadow to his den, which was in the bottom of the cup.At this point, Rodger could be seen staring at a nearby plant, with his glass halfway to his lips, motionless for the longest time. Had someone paid any attention to him, they surely would have thought him to have had a stroke.But I like my evening rounds, and the mornings come too early for me. With that, I will gladly give up a few strokes for a good night's sleep, the first said as both chuckled and moved towards the parlor.Still in a catatonic state, Rodger began to calculate how he could start his rounds earlier. This idea was all he could think about throughout the night.The next day, Rodger rang the pro shop at a second past opening.Good morning. Can I arrange a tee time for you? the voice on the phone asked.Yes, said Rodger. What is your earliest availability tomorrow morning?Our first opening is nine forty-five.That won't do at all. How about the next day?We have a nine o'clock opening.That's still too late. What is the earliest time you allow someone to tee off?That would be eight o'clock, sir.When do you have an eight o'clock tee time vacant?Next Thursday.I'll take it, Rodger stated and hung up the phone. For over a week, Rodger dreamed of that early morning round and of dropping a stroke, maybe three, from his total. Finally, the day came. He checked in at the clubhouse with haste and hurried off, driver in hand. Upon arrival at the first tee, anticipating that glorious untouched Eden, he stopped on the first tee box and surveyed the fairway. Footprints were seen all around the teeing area and down the fairway. Barely visible were trails on the putting green.Drat, Rodger said. Some scoundrel played earlier. Well, I may as well golf some as I'm here. And so he did. Playing in a foul mood, he scored one over his handicap. Absurd, he said to himself after adding his scorecard on the 18th. (continued). …

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The very short stories in Boiling Lake (On Voyage) inhabit the voices of travelers from the past, present, future - and other worlds. The talestake their language from exploration narratives and the terrain of the heart. Written with the authority and inventiveness of an award-winning poet, these tales challenge and unsettle the reader just as foreign landscapes force us to reexamineour identity in the world. Praise for Boiling Lake (On Voyage) With mad singing in strange lands and familiar places, these tiny stories speak a language of dark lyricism. Unleashing the unconscious, White dares to venture through a tapestry of nightmare memories to illuminate strange moments of reality bordered by pure beauty. The book flies fast and free on the wings of words lit by the light on the moon. -Aimee Parkison, author, The Petals of Your Eyes Boiling Lake (On Voyage) is that place of in-betweens, mergings, undefinable spaces where the familiar rubs up against and engages the exotic and unknown: the so-called human world and the natural one; the America of strip malls and the America as it appears to a Mexican immigrant; a series of islands described from the viewpoint of voyagers across the temporal spectrum of history and the inhabitants of those islands; a woman's body in a catalog of materialist and feminist protestations. These voyages are described in a series of blunt, uncompromising prose pieces, in search of an unknown destination, a fertile country inhabited by sweet dispositioned savages who can be harnessed and used to good advantage. The striking energy and territory of Boiling Lake (On Voyage) is a deeply conflicted cultural, metaphysical, and psycho-sexual space, a myriad, cubistic series of personae and forgotten voices that make our post-natural world both new again and hauntingly known. -Sam Witt, poet, Sunflower Brother and Everlasting Quail. O'Mara, Sharyn (illustratore).…

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. Over the last twelve years I've written 4 books about the history of being black. As this new year begins.I'm going to do something a little different. A book of stories. With a little poetry thrown in. I hope that you enjoy it.Anthony Arnoldaka The Kingpen.

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. About the Contributor(s): James S. Lowry is a retired pastor in the Presbyterian Church (USA). His last installed pastorate was the Idlewild Presbyterian Church in Memphis, Tennessee. He lives with his wife, Martha Nichols, on a small farm near Great Falls, South Carolina. His previous books include Low-Back, Ladder-Back, Cane-Bottom Chair: Biblical Meditations (1999), and Prayers for the Lord's Day: Hope for the Exiles (2002).…

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Wild, funny, touching and full of crackling dialogue, Robert Garner McBrearty's stories turn the intensity of real life up a notch: -- A soap opera star turns a set into a real-life melodrama.-- A reformed drinking, whoring, foulmouthed horsethief and bank robber achieves New Age enlightenment.-- A hot spring oasis is the source of a man's newfound sanity -- or is it insanity?In McBrearty's talented hands, this exaggerated reality makes life seem much more hilarious and heartbreakingly real. Previously published in distinguished literary magazines, these stories are about people caught at the moment of life change. Each compelling character struggles with major issues: the struggle to hold down two jobs, hold on to love, keep a grip on reality. And then there's the toughest tussle of all -- the choice to be a responsible citizen or a heroic hellraiser who runs with the bulls.Written with wit and true grit, McBrearty's stories take readers from the city to the open country, from Texas to California. What readers adore most about McBrearty's stories is that, no matter where they are set, real people live there -- out loud.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Just out of college seeking the adventure of his life and an opportunity to do good, Chris Starace joined the Peace Corps and was sent to Benin, West Africa for two years from 1995 to 1997. The challenge was great, and he was pushed to the limit in adapting to a starkly different culture while living on a meager $6 a day. He made many discoveries about himself, as well as an exotic land. Delving into the culture and creating strong relationships with the people led him to appreciate numerous aspects of Benin, while many outsiders are unable to see past its shortcomings. To Benin and Back recounts a variety of unique experiences from an insider's perspective such as living in a remote village, exploring the regional market, harrowing bush taxi rides, odd encounters with Voodoo, having a strange illness diagnosed by a very imaginative traditional healer, being stuck in a sandstorm in the Sahara desert, and humorous anecdotes about adapting to the Beninese culture, insects, snakes, domestic animals and children. When he returned to the United States, he was forced to reevaluate his own culture while dealing with severe reverse culture shock. Traveling back to Benin seven years later allowed him relive, reexamine and assess his long-term contribution.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Tyreek is a 9-year-old boy who lives in an urban housing unit, also known as the projects. From a 9-year-olds perspective, he uses expressive language as he gives readers a tour of his community without embarrassment or shame. He teaches children to be hopeful about the future no matter where they reside.Most importantly, Tyreek introduces the concept of community and its value to this young reader. The book explores how respect and relationships with members of the community are essential. Tyreek is developing the framework for his future by embracing the experiences of his everyday life. He is open, creative, and imaginative as he understands that his dreams can be as big as he wants.Tyreek is educating the reader to think beyond their physical location and create new beginnings by using their strengths or gifting to escape poverty.…

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